BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany sold 8.8 billion litres of beer in 2022, but sales of the beverage still haven’t recovered from the pandemic, statistics office data showed on Wednesday. There was a 2.7% rise in beer sales on the year, an increase of 232.6 million litres, the office said. “After the beer market in Germany suffered a massive slump in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 crisis, sales recovered slightly for the first time in 2022,” the German Brewers Federation said in a statement. Domestic sales, up 4% from 2021, drove those gains. Of all beer sales, 82.5% was for domestic consumption. …